SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced that Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 taking place in Davos, Switzerland from January 21-24, 2015.

Benioff will join a panel discussion, entitled "In Tech We Trust," on Thursday, January, 22, 2015, at 4:45 p.m. CET, featuring European Commission Digital Economy and Society Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Professor of Engineering Tim Berners-Lee, Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao and Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer. The panel will be moderated by international broadcaster Nik Gowing.

A live audiocast and replay will be available on the World Economic Forum's website at http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015

The theme of the 45th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is "The New Global Context." The event brings together global leaders from business, government, international organizations, academia and civil society in Davos for strategic dialogues that map the key transformations reshaping the world. At this year's meeting a record number of participants are expected to attend, including 1,500 top business leaders from more than 140 countries and more than 300 heads of state, heads of government and government members.

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